did anyone else just completely lose it when they had the funeral scene in Islanded In A Stream Of Stars? i’ve gotten misty-eyed watching the show before, like when the crew presents Roslin with the blackbird, and especially when Roslin tells Emily about her mother’s death. But during that funeral scene, I didn’t just get misty. I didn’t have a “single tear” moment when just one slides down your cheek. I wept. I sobbed. I think my roommates are probably pretty sure I’m completely insane, but I was absolutely overcome by the emotion of the scene.
The scenes that got me were Helo’s. Holy Powerful batman. Still upright, still doing the right thing, but holding it all together while in incredible emotional agony. Those unshed tears of his, the tortured look in his eyes, OMG.
Whenever Adama repeats So Say We all!!! over and over and with intensity I have to stop myself from getting up off the coach and screaming it right back at him.
I didn’t feel all that moved during the funeral scene, but I also always get misty with the Blackbird scene, and I cried like an absolute baby when they reached Earth in Revelations and Lee was dancing in CIC. Like an absolute baby…Sobbed…
As long as we are on fessing up about scenes that made us oddly emotional, the scene when Adama first sees the cracks in his quarters was one of the saddest (to me) things I have seen in the show.
Though as a little girl who wore saddleshoes and had curly blonde pigtails I don’t think I cried much, now? as a grown up? It used to be Tigh executing Ellen but since she’s back I don’t think I’ll cry again when I rewatch it. Gaeta’s last confession to Baltar kills me, though. And Helo and Athena… aw man. 
Not so much those scenes. I had a hard time seeing Hera crying for her mother. I have a hard time seeing children abandoned and crying for help when none is offered (I have a hard time with the scene in the extended cut of Razor where Helena’s little sister cries out for her during the flashback to the first cylon war too). It doesn’t help that little Hera looks a lot to me like my oldest daughter did when she was about two or three.
That gaeta scene was amazing. I havent broken down…yet. Ive gotten misty eyed almost every episode in 4.5, i’ve had single tears a few times. Im just waiting till Adama dies:D
I’m right there with you Armando. I was welling up watching it. Ugh, my heart broke. And then, she and Boomer come to some sort of understanding, and Boomer hands her over to Cavil. That got me too.
Kara’s scenes are ones that are powerful to me. Oh, and Adama’s breakdown over Tigh being a Cylon.
Oh, when Liam Tigh died. I didn’t cry, but I felt it deep within me, having had a child born so early that when I got the news of her birth I did not expect her to live (she sure proved us wrong, though. Which reminds me, I’m overdue for some pictures).
I also got a little misty towards the end of “Faith.” That episode just dealt so beautifully with the fear and hope and other contradictory emotions that accompany death, both our own and our loved ones’. It just hit me in the right place (I still say that’s the best episode of the series so far too).
Lee’s speech at Baltars trial frakked me up. He nailed the essence of humanity in describing our faults and foibles. He really said what was essential about us being faulty and imperfect and that’s the great thing about humanity; we who record our faults and are utterly willing to remind us. Strangely enough when I watch BSG I dust off copies of Mark Twain quotes and remember why I love Twain. Graham Greene is damn good read too if you want to see the strangeness of human behavior.
I am not a cryer, it’s just not something I do. I do get emotional, a little choked up here & there, but rarely cry. ESPECIALLY over a television show.
I have broken down sobbing more times over this show in the last month or so than I have in the last couple of years. This run up to the end is ripping my heart out.
That’s the part that applies to me. The only time I’ve come close with BSG is when Tigh stumbled over to Adama about Liam’s passing. I hate to sound like Brian from Family Guy here, but it’s something as a parent that I know I was worried about myself during my wife’s pregnancy, and the idea of having your child ripped from you is tough enough, let alone watching Michael Hogan act it out in a manner more real than I was comfortable with. Talk about pulling your guts out.
The funeral scene in “Islanded” didn’t hit me too hard because to paraphrase an old saying, “61 deaths is a statistic.”
I think the 4 most emotionally powerful words (including delivery) of the zillions of pages of dialogue of the series are Saul Tigh’s “Not all of them”.
Absolutely OT, absolutely, the look on his face, his entire body language delivered it so brutally. It really was brilliant.
I’m not usually a crier either. But something about these past few episodes has been choking me up lately. I think it’s something to do with the end coming on, plus just certain things about my station in life (not that I’m sad and broken up, just feeling things deeper than usual lately).
When Six misunderstood Baltar during Islanded, I really felt for him, kind of misty, but just in the sense of that feeling - the moment when you know you’ve gone too far with a person, that you can never go back to neutral ground, that it’s hopeless and you’ve just got to move on, knowing the mistakes you made, and all that you will never be forgiven for, that you can never take back, knowing there are people you have hurt that you can’t do anything about now. I’ve never participated in the destruction of humanity…but I have had some bad breakups and done some stupid shit.
And, right on with OT, I do get choked up with Tigh’s exodus return to Galactica. And then, not only has he gone through hell in every sense of the word, and lost so much to make sure the plan worked, but he’s then left standing all alone and broken, while Adama is carried around as the hero.
gives Armando a hug
truth be told I have only cried a few times this season.
When Dee killed herself, The “It’s in her bones” line and Liam’s death.
I think it’s becasue of the tension. I want it to be over. I think once the last few mins count down it’ll hit me.
I do plan on joining the live call that night as long as it runs. 
upon a little reflection, i think part of what killed me about that funeral scene was that it came right on the heels of Helo’s pleading with Adama, and watching that guy holding back his tears can really shake you. then they throw in a big funeral and all that? i mean, i’m not a cryer. it generally happens at (real-life) funerals (of people I know, not fictional redshirts) or not at all.
also i wanted my thread back up top. hah.
I don’t often get emotional over a TV show, but two BSG moments in particular got me very teary eyed: when Dee killed herself and when Duck (remember him? :D) gets ready to bomb the police ceremony. This week’s funeral scene was wonderful, though.